Curriculum Vitae (selected)
Lorenia Salgado-Leos is a Sessional Lecturer and PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the study of infrastructure and movement in contemporary literature. She holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature from San Diego State University, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Research and Teaching Areas, Interests
- Literature; Art; Cinema
- Philosophy; Infrastructure; Spatial Theory
- Migration; Mobility; Culture
- Experiential Education; Curriculum Design; Open-Access Scholarship/Pedagogy
Dissertation: “Infrastructures of Mobility.” PhD. University of British Columbia. Supervisor: Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray
Talks: “Desrealidades (est)éticas: Rhythm, Art, and the Infrastructures of Suspension.” MLA Convention.
Roles, Projects: Open Educational Resources Project; Ethnography of Infrastructure; Experiential Education Researcher; Course Coordinator; CMS Doctoral Fellow
Arts, Culture, Community: Film Screening Curator; Tertulia Co-Facilitator; Teaching/Learning Symposium Co-Organizer; Poetry (In Translation) Editorial Assistant
Certifications: Teaching Development Program (Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology)
Teaching
Lorenia’s teaching seeks to cultivate learner-centric, scaffolded, experiential modalities. Her practice ecosystem integrates flexible, immersive, project-based methods alongside open-access platforms. “Flipping” teaching/learning settings, Lorenia’s pedagogy aims to foster an infrastructure of collaborative environments conducive to “mobile” approaches to reading-thinking-writing-building, in which students play an active role, within and beyond the classroom.
Talks: “Sonic Ecologies: Place and Listening in Teaching and Learning.” Celebrate Learning Week
Awards, Grants: UBC Vancouver Teaching/Learning OER Fund
Lorenia has taught courses as an Instructor and Sessional Lecturer at the University of British Columbia. For three years, she coordinated the “Reading and Writing at University” course as part of the Academic Essentials Summer Program, which supports incoming students’ transition into their first-year courses at UBC. Lorenia served as an Experiential Education researcher at the Office of Regional and International Community Engagement. She played an integral role in designing, developing, and implementing blended Experiential and Community-Engaged Learning initiatives. As an Adjunct Professor of English and Comparative Literature, she taught post-secondary language and literature courses, from introductory to advanced levels. During this period, she also supervised several Honours Contracts, supporting students in their academic, professional, and community-based engagement.
Research & Teaching
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